Best Bbc Good Food Show Podcasts (2024)

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Freshness and Grinding, Part 2: How grinders work deep inside 47:24

4M ago47:24

47:24

Deep inside your coffee grinder, tiny changes can have massive consequences. This episode takes you deep inside Mahlkönig’s grinders to show you how coffee is ground and the importance of particle sizes on flavour. If you’re a home coffee lover, you could easily spend thousands of dollars on your coffee grinder. But after diving deep into the R&D o…

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Freshness and Grinding, Part 1: Protecting your coffee's flavours 49:40

5M ago49:40

49:40

For your coffee to taste its best, it’s crucial you buy fresh roasts and grind fresh.… .….Or maybe not. When I began creating this episode, I was convinced that ‘fresh is best’. But, after delving into the science of coffee freshness, I don’t believe that anymore. This episode goes deep into how diffusion and oxidation changes a coffee’s flavours. …

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What Is Good Science? Part 2: How to think like a scientist 55:15

6M ago55:15

55:15

In the last episode, I discovered that rinsing my Chemex filter papers was a waste of time! As a result I’ve managed to claw back over seven days of my life left on earth. But why stop there? The coffee industry is full of elaborate ways of brewing and savouring coffee: fancy drippers, cold metal balls, “slurp-able” cupping spoons. These are very f…

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What Is Good Science? Part 1: How to brew coffee like a scientist 46:21

6M ago46:21

46:21

Should you rinse your filter paper before making a filter coffee? Almost everybody in coffee internet says you should. But what if most of coffee internet was wrong? In this episode, I show you how I try to answer this question like a professional sensory scientist would. It’s hard. It’s frustrating. But ultimately, it’s worth it because I end up s…

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Organic Coffee, Part 2: Why don't we see more organic coffee farms? 41:22

6M ago41:22

41:22

Farming coffee organically is amazing because soils are more alive, birds and insects are more plentiful, farmers avoid getting sick with agrochemicals. But, if it’s so great, why is less than 10% of the world’s coffee grown organically? The fact is, going organic is hard. Much harder than growing coffee conventionally. In this episode I show you t…

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Organic Coffee, Part 1: The magic of soil 38:49

7M ago38:49

38:49

The world’s farming soils are deteriorating quickly. Conventional coffee farming where plants are grown using agrochemicals allowed farmers to reap huge harvests these last 70 years. But these agrochemicals have been at the expense of soil health. I travel to Honduras to explore a potential solution: organic coffee farming. Come with me as I show y…

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Coffee Roasting, Part 2: Roasting made easy 46:20

7M ago46:20

46:20

Roasting coffee can be maddening. Just 4° Celsius is enough to make the same green beans taste distinctly different! And there are so many things roasters can play around with: temperature, time, fan speed, drum speed, types of probes…the list goes on and on. So, if you want to start roasting yourself, where do you start!? In the first half of this…

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Coffee Roasting, Part 1: How heat transforms coffee beans 37:42

8M ago37:42

37:42

What flavours do you want from your coffee? Every coffee bean begins its life green. And if you brewed it up without first roasting it, you’d get a yellow-green cup of grass-flavoured water. But, as soon you apply heat to a bean, the flavour can morph to from something quite vegetative to a very acidic unripe fruit, then a very sweet fruit, and eve…

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Smell and Taste, Part 2: Are you and me tasting the same flavours? 39:19

8M ago39:19

39:19

Ever wonder why you and your friends can taste the same coffee, but you can’t agree on the flavour notes? Join me as I explore this metaphysical mystery! I speak with leading scientists and ask: are the flavour receptors in your nose and mouth the same as mine? How does music and the shape of a cup affect what we taste? What about our different cul…

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Smell and Taste, Part 1: How to be a better coffee taster 44:33

9M ago44:33

44:33

So you’ve just taken a sip of a very rare coffee, and flavours of passion fruit explode in your mouth. But here’s the thing: that flavour of passion fruit is not coming from your mouth. It’s not even coming from your nostrils. It’s being picked up behind your eyes! In this first episode of The Science of Coffee's second series, I unravel how our se…

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Introducing: Season 2 of The Science of Coffee 2:18

9M ago2:18

2:18

We're back with another series of The Science of Coffee! Across 10 science stories, narrative audio producer and coffee professional James Harper takes you on a journey into coffee's hidden microscopic secrets. James has spent the last year traveling to Central America, Greece, Norway, Switzerland and interviewing dozens of the world’s leading coff…

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Mike Reid - Chef and restaurateur - 17 June 2023 14:26

1+ y ago14:26

14:26

Mike Reid - Chef and restaurateur - 17 June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Peter Schaebbicke - Botree Farms Cambodian Pepper - 17th June 2023 7:12

1+ y ago7:12

7:12

Peter Schaebbicke - Botree Farms Cambodian Pepper - 17th June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Abi Kendall - The Cornish Larder - 17 June 2023 5:11

1y ago5:11

5:11

Abi Kendall - The Cornish Larder - 17 June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Kevin Edge - Barbecue Expert - 17th June 2023 5:58

1+ y ago5:58

5:58

Kevin Edge - Barbecue Expert - 17th June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Katy Truss - Condiments for BBQs and outdoor eating 5:43

1y ago5:43

5:43

Katy Truss - Condiments for BBQs and outdoor eatingBy Immediate Live 2023

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Grant Hedley - Great English Wines - 16 June 2023 6:06

1y ago6:06

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Grant Hedley - Great English Wines - 16 June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Neil Reader - Rossmore Oysters - 16 June 2023 4:09

1+ y ago4:09

4:09

Neil Reader - Rossmore Oysters - 16 June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Razan Alsous - Squeeky Cheese - 16 June 2023 11:45

1y ago11:45

11:45

Razan Alsous - Squeeky Cheese - 16 June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Paul Ainsworth - No6 Restaurant Padstow - 15 June 2023 16:39

1+ y ago16:39

16:39

Paul Ainsworth - No6 Restaurant Padstow - 15 June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Nadiya Hussain - Baker and author on the Big Kitchen Stage - 15th June 2023 12:49

1+ y ago12:49

12:49

Nadiya Hussain - Baker and author on the Big Kitchen Stage - - 15th June 2023By Immediate Live 2023

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Michel Roux - BBC Goodfood Show Summer 2023 Preview 12:38

1+ y ago12:38

12:38

You can catch Michel cooking live in the Big Kitchen on Friday 16th June at the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023! Michel Roux was born in 1960 in Pembury, Kent, where his father Albert Roux worked as a private chef for the Cazalet family. His earliest food memories are the smells of the Fairlawne kitchen – pastry, sugar caramelizing and stews – where…

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Shaun McAnuff - BBC Goodfood Show Summer 2023 Preview 13:03

1+ y ago13:03

13:03

Craig and Shaun McAnuff You can catch Craig and Shaun cooking live in the Summer Kitchen on Friday 16th June, at the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023! Popular food influencer brothers from London, Craig and Shaun, launched ‘Original Flava’ in 2016 to teach people how to cook Caribbean food via easy and tasty recipes for everyone! Taught how to cook b…

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Chris Bavin - BBC Goodfood Show Summer 2023 Preview 17:07

1+ y ago17:07

17:07

You can catch Chris hosting the Summer Kitchen at BBC Good Food Show Summer and he will also be at BBC Good Food Festival 2023! Chris Bavin is so full of character he was born to be on TV. After a TV production company first stumbled across him in 2011 he has gone from strength to strength and is currently co-presenting his fourth series of BBC1’s …

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4) Just Friends? America's love affair with coffee 44:24

1+ y ago44:24

44:24

America is coffee-obsessed. From Central Perk’s red couch being the centre of major plot twists in Friends to the fact the average American drank more than two cups a day. And the conventional explanation is pretty straightforward: an English colonist introduces coffee to Jamestown in 1607. 150 years later Americans rebel against the British by thr…

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Chris Baber - BBC Goodfood Show Summer 2023 Preview 14:55

1+ y ago14:55

14:55

You can catch Chris cooking live on the Summer Kitchen at BBC Good Food Show Summer on Friday 16 June, and the Festival Kitchen on Friday 18 August at the BBC Good Food Festival 2023! Chris Baber is a chef on a mission to make cooking easy with his delicious, fuss-free recipes. His debut cookbook, Easy, was published in April 2022 and is filled wit…

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3) Espresso Lungo: The slow road to Italy's democratic espresso culture 44:57

1+ y ago44:57

44:57

One morning back in the ‘80s, Howard Schultz walks out of his Milan hotel, stumbles into an espresso bar, and fundamentally changes coffee history. He discovered (and then popularises) the iconic, timeless Italian coffee experience: Rich thick coffee, an affordable price and great theatre. But this Italian ritual is surprisingly young, so young tha…

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Kwoklyn Wan - BBC Goodfood Show Summer 2023 Preview 16:18

1+ y ago16:18

16:18

You can catch Kwoklyn cooking live in the Summer Kitchen on Thursday 15th June at the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023! Kwoklyn Wan is a worldwide bestselling author, TV chef, martial arts expert and presenter. In 2018 Kwoklyn made his TV debut on ITV’s This Morning and he’s now regularly cooking up a storm on Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch. With t…

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2) A Lasting Stain: Haiti, Colonialism and Coffee 47:33

1+ y ago47:33

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Haiti was once the biggest, most profitable coffee growing region in the world. But today Haiti is one of the world’s poorest nations where you can’t get a bag of Haitian beans delivered to Berlin in a week for love nor money. In this second episode of Series Two of A History of Coffee, we show you how colonialism and racism dragged Haiti into pove…

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Ching-He Huang - BBC Goodfood Show Summer 2023 Preview 13:21

1+ y ago13:21

13:21

You can catch Ching cooking live in the Summer Kitchen on Friday 16th June at BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023! Ching-He Huang MBE is an International Emmy nominated, Award winning TV chef & cookery author who has become an ambassador of Chinese cooking around the world. Ching received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020 list, for services to…

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1) It's Just Coffee? How coffee houses changed the world 45:41

1+ y ago45:41

45:41

A coffee shop is a lot more than just a place to drink coffee. The seats and sofas encourage you to invite a friend, and chat. And chatting is powerful: ideas that emerge from these caffeine-fuelled conversations give birth to modern finance and even the founding of great artistic and scientific institutions. Meanwhile, other ideas threaten those i…

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Crystelle Pereira - BBC Goodfood Show Summer 2023 Preview 17:16

1+ y ago17:16

17:16

You can catch Crystelle cooking live in the Summer Kitchen on Thursday 15th June at BBC Good Food Show Summer 2023! Crystelle Pereira is a 27-year old quick-witted cook and baker from London. Born in North London to Kenyan born, Portuguese-Goan parents, Crystelle loves sharing her Portuguese-Goans recipes. She stole the hearts of the nation in the …

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Introducing: Series Two of A History of Coffee 5:01

1+ y ago5:01

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We're back with more stories about the tiny psychoactive seed that changed the world and continues to shape our lives today. In Series Two, we reveal how the invention of the coffee shop revolutionised societies, why colonialism, racism and coffee have kept once prosperous Haiti poor today, how Italy's revered espresso culture was created, and we d…

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6) Sonic Seasoning 53:48

1+ y ago53:48

53:48

Imagine you’ve got a cup of coffee in front of you. You haven’t tasted it yet. You therefore don’t know what it tastes like, right? Wrong. Some scientists argue that you actually do know what it will taste like (more or less), and the act of tasting simply confirms what you have already imagined it will taste like. And that’s because a growing body…

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